About Alfred's Steakhouse

Alfred’s is a classic San Francisco steakhouse offering a modern spin on steakhouse fare in a glamorous setting. Open since 1928 and recently restored to its vintage glory, Alfred’s features dry-aged steaks cooked over a mesquite grill, along with sides, appetizers and even vegetarian entrees featuring the Bay Area’s fresh produce. Martinis and Manhattans are served with a refill in the shaker, and Bananas Foster are flambéed tableside in a nod to steakhouse traditions. The bar offers a more casual experience, where locals gather for deviled eggs or the Alfred’s burger and steak fries while they watch the game.

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Alfred's offers a variety of options for special events, including several private dining rooms for groups 10-50, semi-private room for 35, bar and lounge for 40, full buyout for 140. Menus include our dry-aged grilled beef, but also delicious chef-driven options for pescatarians and vegatarians.

Birthday celebration and they did not disappoint with banana foster finale. We all had steak, and loved the sauce. Lemon broccoli we want to copy - so good!My one buddy wanted the weekday special. Craving the pasta. They would not budge nor make exception. Fair but she had to ask. Great old school cocktails - manhattans were highlighted and they have grasshoppers to. Fine port. Wine good but overpriced

I have frequented this establishment several times and have yet to be disappointed. I do have to say that this most recent meal was a memorable one. We were celebrating my husband’s birthday and decided to have the Porterhouse for 2 meal. The amount of food we had was staggering for a 3 course meal which began with a very nice romaine salad, the main course of the steam + 4 sides and 5 toppers and ended with a to die for Bananas Fosters. Not an inexpensive meal but well worth the price and I must say well priced for a mean in SF.

Tags: Special Occasion, Authentic, Fit for Foodies, Romantic, Neighborhood Gem, Pre/post Theatre, Quiet Conversation, Good for a Date, Good for Birthdays

Bought an expensive $140 bottle of wine for the three of us at dinner. It was listed as a 2014 vintage. The waiter brought out a 2015 and was busy starting to open it when I pointed out this was not the vintage that was listed on the menu. He said he had just "pulled it from the bin." After a 5 minute delay the head waiter came over and blamed his wine distributor on the error but simply apologized, nothing more. By this time I was completely over the place and told him to just open it.

The food was fine but not the best steak I have ever had and the side dishes were average.

Then the bill comes and they have pre-charged a 20% gratuity on the bill.

GREAT food, but service for this level of restaurant was horrible, Our waitress was amazing, but overall service, other wait staff was very slow to refill water, etc. For the prive you pay to dine here, service should be impeccable.

Had 2 different waiters, didn’t understand that, but both were very good. First one recommended a really good French wine and was very knowledgeable about the different regions in France. Second one put on great show making banana foster. Food was very good.

When i booked there was definitely an option for just steak. And another option for a 4 course set menu.. when we got there, there was only the set menu available.So we had to take that option.. neither of us like fish, so our options for 3 of the courses were very limited.We are not american, so once the tax and a 20% tip were added (no choice but to pay), it ended up very very expensive.

The steak was cold and dry. The old Alfred was so much better in food qualities and services than the current operator. It is almost like the current operator does not know how to cook steaks. They are giving Alfred a bad reputation.

Our reservation was for 8:45on christmas eve. Our food did not arrive until 10pm, lukewarm. When dessert arrived, the sorbet was freezer burnt and the brownie was obviously a store bought processed confection prepared with very little care to appear that it was made in house. This was a pri-fix menu that was woefully sub-par. The steak was very good, but the sides were terrible cold. It was top dollar for something that tasted like casino fare. You do a terrible injustice to this restaurants legacy.

Food was fantastic! Great great great fillet! Service top notch! Reservations recommended but may not be super necessary because very expensive. Not everyone will be going because of price but we loved it!

Tags: Business Meals, Notable Wine List, Good for Groups, Fit for Foodies, Worth the Drive, Local Ingredients, Good for Anniversaries, Special Occasion, Good for a Date, Good for Birthdays

The bread was frozen & we had to ask twice for it to be replaced. They were out of petrale sole early in the evening. We waited an extraordinarily long time for our main courses to arrive (over an hour) . The waiter was nice and apologetic. No offer was made to adjust the bill. Especially at these prices, this was disrespectful treatment and a disappointing experience.

We had a most unpleasant evening at Alfred's. Our meal started with the Vesper and Premium Manhattan cocktails, which were good, and a wedge salad - good but not great, we've had better. We splurged on a $200+ burgundy, which was very good. But an hour-and-half later - where's our dinner? We're starving, most of the wine is gone (we were really looking forward to having the wine with our meal but what do you do for 90 minutes, whoops, it was closer to 2 hours by the time our food arrived). To be fair, they did bring some insipid deviled eggs over, which we hadn't ordered and didn't eat. No tip for you, I thought. Wrong again, they have a 20% service charge built into the price. Total for all this entertainment, around $400. Excuses and apologies followed but who goes to a steakhouse for excuses and apologies? My advice, choose one of the other fine steakhouses over this place...

Food was ok but one steak had to be sent back because it wasn't cooked to order and the presentation was terrible - a steak on a bare white plate with nothing else. Server was very nice but service was not good. Maybe it was the kitchen's fault but it really dragged.

My New York Steak was delicious and perfectly cooked, but came with no side dishes. A baked potato was $9.00 I believe and for the price of the meal that should have been included. My Alfred's Salad was ok but lacked the vibrancy of the old Caesar Salad. Were there anchovies in the dressing? My martinis were excellent. My wife's Oysters were excellent as was her Beet and Avocado Salad.

Tags: Handcrafted Cocktails, Good for a Date, Quiet Conversation, Business Meals, Bar Seating, Live Sports, Worth the Drive, Good for Birthdays

The service was fantastic. From the minute we walked in the door until the minute we walked out, everybody that worked at Alfred's was friendly, courteous, and really helpful. I would definitely recommend!

This restaurant feels like it’s dying. Fast. The moment we walked in, we noticed the loud 60’s pop music that was so loud we had to ask them to turn it down. The music had no relevance to the brand and it felt desperate that it was so loud. The service was warm and sincere but you had to wonder why the hostess was clearing dishes. Food is over priced and very mediocre: calamari was obviously frozen because they were so shrunken, and the celery Victor — a house specialty — was nearly inedible, drowned in parmesan cheese. I honestly feel sad for such an historic building to be operated with such carelessness and as if they know no one will ever go back. We won’t.

We went to Alfreds as I saw the write up in Sunset Magazine and Alfreds was a favorite when I was a kid.The bar was awesome and so were the bartenders and yummy drinks. As far as the food. Very very disappointed. The salads were nothing special and the steaks were very disappointing!!! They were aged which neither myself or my husband enjoy mostly because of the smell. We also had the mushrooms which were tough and not a great flavor.None of this spoiled our evening but I would not go back or recommend!!!

For our fifteenth wedding anniversary, we decided to have a nice steak (something we both enjoy) and go to a play (Aladdin). When dating we both enjoyed Alfred's in the past. We arrived early and had wonderful drinks in the bar. The bartender was very nice and pleasant to talk with.

When we entered the dining room for dinner, we met our waiter who was arrogant and unfriendly. It felt like he really did not want to be there. At best he pretended to be accommodating and when we wished to finish our drinks before ordering he just walked away. But the feeling of being rushed did not stop there, we wanted to order a salad first then decide on our dinner meals. The waiter said no, that we needed to order our meal all together and not to worry but that the food would come out at the right time. Well, I am glad he knows how we like to eat better then we do or that the kitchen is more important to follow a schedule then how we like to eat. Either reason rushed is all we felt.

The steaks were awesome, the fries were mediocre at best and the desert, Grilled Peach Melba, was a complete disaster. The after-dinner coffee was great.

The bill was wrong and all the waiter said was "ops that should have been removed". If my wife did not look closely then we would have been charged for something we did not order.

All in all, nice place and a historic restaurant but not worth the money and not worth putting up with unfriendly service. I will not go back. Better more attentive service is available in many other restaurants.

If I want that Old School steakhouse experience I always head to Alfred's. I've probably been coming here steadily for the past 20 years and if I recall correctly, my first visit was back in the mid-eighties. It never varies. The food is excellent and the service is superb. There is an ample selection of wine and they mix a damn good cocktail. I do steak, filet usually and always cooked to perfection. Try the Perfect Manhattan.

On Saturday night my wife and I dined at Alfred's for our first (and probably last) time. The entire experience from beginning to end was truly appalling. Management should know what happened. Specifically, we experienced a server who cursed about "her eff*ng night" for an endless 10 minutes in the middle of the floor, a manager who confessed she was "probably quitting tomorrow after this terrible night," and a 2+ hour wait for our food. To say the service was unprofessional, disrespectful and slow would be putting it mildly.

For a restaurant that is marketed/priced comparably to a fine steakhouse, there is a certain expectation of what the experience will be like. What we experienced was like a scene out of an episode of Kitchen Nightmares. And I've never seen anything like the server melt-down we were in the middle of either. It was really bad. My wife had been dying to try Alfred's ever since she saw a review in a magazine about a year ago. We are parents and hardly ever go out -- but this night we got a babysitter and chose to dine Alfred's. What an utter disappointment.

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